New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a 2012 platformer video game. It is the sequel to the 2006 New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS. It is a follow-up to the 2009 Wii game New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which is a follow-up to the 2006 game. It was released on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on July 28, 2012, in Europe on August 17, 2012 and in North America on August 19, 2012.[1] A follow-up to this game and a sequel to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, titled New Super Mario Bros. U, was released on the Wii U three months later, which had an extension pack called New Super Luigi U released in June 2013. It focuses more on coins than the other Mario games, and according to Satoru Iwata, the goal of the game is to get a million coins.[2]